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Je renais de mes cendres
...The reverse bears the inscription Les armoiries du Roi Henry Christophe, 1767-1820, Bâtisseur de La Citadelle (The arms of King Henry Christophe, 1767-1820, Builder of the Citadel). In the middle is the king’s coat of arms, a crowned phoenix rising from the flames, with stars in the firmament and the words, Je renais de mes cendres. (I [...]
Cécile Fatiman, Boukman Dutty & Bois Caiman
The old slave woman, intimate of the gods, buries her machete in the throat of a black wild boar. The earth of Haiti drinks the blood. Under the protection of the gods of war and of fire, two hundred blacks sing and dance the oath of freedom. In the prohibited voodoo ceremony aglow with lightning [...]
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 12 January 2010
Evelne Alcide, Seisme (Earthquake), 2010. Museum of International Folk Art/Museum of New Mexico. Click links for more information; click image for larger version.
Haiti: February 7, 1986
Twenty-five years after Jean-Claude Duvalier left power, scores of his alleged victims are still awaiting justice. This Amnesty International video from 1985 contains testimonies of the widespread arbitrary detentions and torture.
Amnesty International (7 February 2011)
Port-au-Prince: Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 04:53:10 PM
Seismic recordings from British Geological Survey broadband stations in the UK of the magnitude 7.0 Haiti earthquake.
Haiti: An Introduction to The Agronomist
The Public Archive’s first venture towards a local engagement with the Vanderbilt and greater Nashville communities is a film series titled Memory, Cinema, Archive, co-sponsored by Vanderbilt University’s International Lens and the Department of History.
The first films in the series are a triptych on Haiti, scheduled in the weeks prior to the Republic’s presidential [...]
Haiti: Archiving the Present
There’s an overwhelming amount of data flowing out from the authorities and NGOs in Haiti. People engaged on this issue should share skills, resources, and make sure nothing important slips unnoticed into the netherzones of cyberspace.
“Haiti Documents Index,” Mediahacker: Independent multimedia reporting from Haiti since 2009 (2010)
This collection is currently documenting the events of the [...]
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 12 January 2010